Researchers catch and release five great whites

The ocean research group Ocearch landed a 14-foot 2-inch, 2,300 lb. immature female Great White Shark off the coast of Massachusetts’ Cape Cod in late August — the fifth female white shark they’ve caught since beginning their research campaign two and a half weeks earlier.

“These New England sharks are skittish. They’re not like South African sharks which are somewhat used to human interaction. These sharks are super boat-shy and fixated on the local seal population,” Ocearch founder Chris Fischer told the online commercial marine website Gcaptain.com.

Fischer says he and his team are supporting more than a half dozen research groups and universities in a unified effort to learn everything they can about the North Atlantic Great White Shark, particularly their breeding and migratory patterns.

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To do so they are taking blood samples and attaching GPS transponders to their dorsal fins which allow the sharks to be tracked in real time.